ribit says, "Ole Bill is tryin' to lay Hillary's loss on somebody before she decides it's his fault and he turns up in Ft. Marcy Park."
Nah, ribit ... Billy Jeff doesn't think much past the very first part of your sentence, my friend ... he is just tryin' to lay anything he possibly can.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence